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I put a compressor outside on the back side enclosed in a little shed with roof and ran hard air lines to work bench and a few more scattered outlets. I put 50 feet of pallet rack shelving down one side and 30 more feet across the back.
At the time I had a drag car and several Chevy II projects. I also stored a 40 Willy's street rod and another rod for a friend.
In 1994 I moved to Lexington, KY and sold the old homestead . After downsizing twice I now have a townhouse with a one car garage. At least it is fairly long at 13x24 feet. My only Chevy II is an Ertl die cast 66SS and some drag race trophies from 1967 in a bookshelf in my office.
Luckily though, where I'm building the garage is partly on the existing driveway. And even though it's just a gravel driveway, they count that space as "impermeable", so they're giving me a partial credit for the overlap. So I only have to offset 1427 square feet, or something like that. Anyway, they said I could do either 15 trees, 45 shrubs, or a combination thereof, where 3 shrubs would equal one tree.
The size of tree they wanted was called a "1.5 inch caliper", where they measure the diameter of the trunk at roughly the 4-5 foot level. I priced them, and those sized trees were starting around $200+, for even a fairly boring tree, and they were too big for me to easily just throw them in the back of the truck and bring home. So, I went the native shrub route, where they only required a "3-4 gallon pot", and ended up spending around $800 total, because they were all on clearance, 50% off. I drew up a site plan for where I want to plant them, and am going to try and submit it tomorrow. Oh, I also have to post a bond with the county, for the price of the plants (plus labor, if I was going to have someone install them), and then have it inspected within a certain amount of time, or I lose the money.
So, slowly, but surely! Once they actually start breaking ground, I'll definitely take pics of the progress!
hoops in an unincorporated area of rural KY back then. If you do a compressor I really liked having it out of the garage. Much quieter .
Just reminded me also of the pallet rack shelving purchase. We went to an auction in Charleston WV and all the components were sold separately . First were the 10' side rails, we bought 200 @ $3.00 each. After that we were committed to buy enough upright sections to build the shelves they cost $15.00 each. Still not bad, $48.00 per section. Then they sold the unique D shaped heavy clips to fasten the sides to the uprights, we bought a 55 gallon drum of them.
Fortunately, the guy I split with had large box trucks and strong young guys so we overloaded one and got them all home in one trip. With the help of some bungee cords and leaning the first upright against a wall I managed to assemble mine by myself.
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Red and white Galaxie "Town Victoria" 4 door HT at left is the color of my dad's Country Sedan.
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On the road today, 77-79 Impala or Caprice, 70s Chevy van, MB 300CD, 560SL, maybe the rarest, a 90s Olds Cruiser wagon, the bubble or whale type.
It might be a local car. The road we saw it on dead ends about a mile after the turnoff for my house, in one of those little waterfront communities that managed to keep its sleepy charm. But, there's also a Veteran's cemetery, a mega church (or at least a pretty danged big 'un), a sports complex, and a small beach/marina, so that road gets a lot of traffic. I think the beach/marina (really more of just a boat ramp I think) might be private/closed to the general public
But, when I mentioned what it was, my friend, who is not a car person, said, "That's a Buick?!" Which, I thought was funny, because that's the tagline Buick is using with their new commercials where they're trying to market to millennials, post-ennials, etc.
Although at the rate they seem to be going, I have a feeling GM is going to borrow from the old AMC Matador marketing and go with "What's a Buick?"
Well, maybe not. The red four-door hardtop roof sure looks white. The brochure mentions optional two-tones but doesn't go into the combinations.
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I have a feeling that the light yellow over light gold/copper, or whatever you'd call it, 4-door in the middle, looks more like this outdoors...
This isn't the best pic in the world, of a 2-tone 1960 Ford, but the closest color match I could find to one with a light-colored, but non-white roof. In the showroom pic, that yellowish almost looks to me like how a modern pearly white would look. But that's not a color they had back then as far as I know, at least not on something low-level like a Ford. I could see an off-white, antique white, or whatever you call it, but not that pearly white that makes me think of an early 90's Maxima, or a final-gen Seville.
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The paint charts I've found are inconsistent on the colors in the whites, off whites, and yellow appearance.
But I'll go with the roof is the yellow. I suspect Ford pushed that as a combination color for ordered by the stores as a company-pushed image combination.
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The '79 Eldorado there makes me forget all about the '80 Fleetwood Brougham!
Apparently that is Mrs. Potamkin herself.
Not a bettin' man, but if I were, I'd bet that Mrs. Potamkin was wife no. 2.
I guess you had to be there, but he made them sound like a service headache at the time.
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I never understood why GM thought they could get away with selling what was a nice enough but very mainstream car in Europe as some kind of luxury market competitor. In Germany, an Opel Omega would have compared with maybe a Caprice or a Buick if in this market, not with a BMW.
Ford isn't much better; they did the same with the Granada turned Versailles. It still happens today, but there is much more differentiation for the luxury models (or at least it seems to me!)
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Ford might even be worse, did it with an entire short-lived brand (Merkur) - they were just Fords in Europe, nice modern and sometimes cool cars, but were not really chasing premium brand cars there. But here, European = fancy, look out BMW!
Funny thing the Versailles used a Ford 9" rear and many had factory disks. That's a common hotrod swap item.
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When Ford brought out the Lincoln Zephyr a few years back, the one based on the Fusion/Milan, I thought the same thing...seems like a nice, upscale car, until you see it next to a Fusion or Milan.
In comparison, there was a pretty big jump between a Nova and its siblings, and a Seville. Even though you could equip some of those X-cars pretty luxuriously, the Seville was still a cut above. It had a longer wheelbase, and as far as I know, shared no sheetmetal at all with the other X'es. Even the windshield and A-pillar area was different, and that's usually the one thing they don't like to change on a car, if possible.
As for some of those larger/more luxurious K-car variants, I'll admit they're a guilty pleasure of mine. I thought the interiors were pretty nice. Chrysler saved so much money on badge-engineering, all those models, that it seemed like they were able to put a few extra bucks into the interior.
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This guy's tastes are pretty wide-ranging, though. One of his dream cars was always a Mark V, and he ended up getting a '78 Diamond Jubilee. It had some issues, so he went out and got one that was even nicer, with only something like 12,000 miles on it.
I remember back in the early 90's, in a short span, I test drove few used cars...an '86 or so Cutlass Supreme sedan, a Dynasty with the 3.0, and a Monaco (the Eagle Premier clone) with whatever V6 it had (I think a different 3.0?)
Just from a handling/performance perspective, I actually liked the Monaco the best. It seemed pretty nimble, and light on its feet for its size. The Dynasty had that feeling of taking a small car and making it feel "big"...sort of like what Ford did with the original Granada. It wasn't horrible, but just sort of "meh". The Cutlass Supreme, while the oldest design, just had that comfortable sort of GM familiarity to it that I liked. Plus, it had the 307, so in that lighter body, it wasn't bad.
I think if someone held a gun to my head and forced me to pick one of those three at the time, I would have gone with the Cutlass Supreme, for the durability, cheap-to-fix factor, and that comfortable familiarity. While I did like that Monaco, it just seemed a bit too "French" for my tastes. And, one of my relatives had owned an Eagle Premier, which was pretty troublesome, so I think I'd be worried about reliability.
I'd probably be fine with one nowadays, as a collector car that I just drove around occasionally on a nice day, or to a car show. However, if I was a new car buyer back when they were new, or buying one as a used car to drive all the time, I most likely would have passed it up for a car I felt more comfortable in.
It's been ages since I've sat in one, but I recall the Granada as being pretty cramped inside, as well, a trait that would carry over to the Versailles. If I wanted a small-ish, ritzy domestic car back in that era, I probably would have been best served with a fully-loaded Chrysler LeBaron, and saved a few thousand bucks in the process.
I know that the first-gen is more desireable, but comfort is one thing I really appreciate about the '80-85 Seville. While the '75-79 just can't escape that compact car feeling for me, the '80-85 feels more like a full-sized car, narrowed down to a comfy 4 seater.
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I found it a bit surprising, because normally they didn't smash up cars that new. Although, this was a 5th season episode aired in November '81, so at the time the '82 models were out, making it a 4 year old car.
The bigger tragedy is that the car it smacked into was a '67 or so Cougar, which then got spun around in the intersection, and T-boned by a '72 Catalina. And then the '78 sped off, committing a hit and run. I guess one reason I noticed it, is that I've always had a thing for the '77 Catalina, and this one is really close in style.
In rewinding on the DVR and watching the crash scene again, I noticed the Catalina already had body damage before hitting the Cougar, and it you weren't paying attention it was easy to miss. And, they never did show a broad, establishing shot of the car...the first view of it was a close up, of the interior, with the occupants. You never saw it from the outside until it was about to hit the Cougar. So, I guess the production people got ahold of one that was already wrecked, on the cheap, and finished it off for this episode.
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Other good spots are that Impala hardtop and the 2 headlight Panther taxi.
Versailles memory (I think I've told this one before). Picture it: my house, 1988, a female relative in her 20s breaks up with her longtime bf and wants to get away, my dad gets wind of this and lets her stay with us for the summer. Another relative, not a blood relative and someone I was never familiar with, has a used car lot a few towns over, and gives this young woman a car. She had a thing for old Lincolns then, and he has something on his lot for her - a 78 Versailles. It apparently came from an estate, and I don't recall the miles, but they must have been low, as the car was pristine. IIRC, it was dark grey on silver, dark grey button tufted leather, moonroof, fancy stereo - seemed to be a high option car, but I don't recall the engine size. She was over the moon with it, but probably due to her age and experience, didn't baby it. IIRC, sometime in mid-late 1989, the transmission went out (I think) , and she just got another car instead. I clearly remember cruising around with her in the Versailles, roof open, top 40 hits of the era on the radio, good times.
Thinking about it, I recall that car too, a blue and white 69-70 Ford Galaxie, given to her by her mother, who bought it from a friend who was the original owner. It was very nice too, and had about the same lifespan before it was claimed by an unknown-to-me malady. I recall the big Ford had an aftermarket rear window defroster that interested me.
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The Seville, as pointed out, at least didn't look like a Nova anywhere.
Speaking of Nova, here's a Nova I liked from day one, but I think they sold poorly and I hardly ever saw them then, yet now. I spy a hint of BMW in the cut of the rear door and the exhaust vent on the C-pillar for the flow-through ventilation. And it could've been had with the 350 ("5.7 LITER" as it read out on the front fender).
Then, and now, I'd have enjoyed one of these more than the same-year four-door Colonnade (although I know those were larger).
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I feel that way about Tahoe/Yukon/(and especially) Escalade. But I'm surely not the market they were intending for those anyway! LOL
RE.: Quality--I remember CR testing a '73 Electra 225. I clearly recall they counted 46 defects, a lot even by 1973 standards. One was a dent resulting in the hood or upper fender when the right door was opened. I remember a Buick guy from school who constantly said Buick quality was better than the lesser GM brands, and he about blew steam when I showed him that, LOL.
RE.: '66 Caprice--I occasionally search for "Caprice coupe" on eBay. Seems invariably, more '66's come up than any other year.